Daily Archives: May 4, 2017

Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan offers great investment opportunities in various sectors. ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has expressed its resolve to extend cooperation with Japan in different fields including trade, investment and development. The resolve came during a meeting of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan ...

TEHRAN – Twenty-one coal miners have died attempting to rescue trapped workmates in northern Iran after an explosion Wednesday caused a mile-long tunnel to partially collapse, news agencies said. Tragically, the bodies are those of miners who went into the tunnel to try to save 32 trapped workmates who are ...

Nearly 5,000 local authority seats are being contested across England, Scotland and Wales. LONDON – Theresa May faces her first nationwide electoral test as Britain s prime minister on Thursday, as she toughens her Brexit position just weeks before a crucial general election. Britain will choose thousands of new local ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump confidently predicted that a Middle East peace agreement was within grasp Wednesday, as he hosted Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas at the White House. “We will get it done,” Trump said, flaunting his deal-making prowess during a first meeting with the veteran Palestinian leader that marked ...

Hundreds of thousands are casting their ballots in early voting for the presidential election, less than a month after the former head of state, Park Geun-hye, was ousted over corruption allegations. More than 3,500 polling stations, across the country and overseas, opened on Thursday morning, with the National Election ...

WASHINGTON – US lawmakers will vote Thursday to repeal and replace Obamacare, Republican House leaders said, in the latest effort to provide President Donald Trump a crucial legislative victory in his first months in office. The announcement comes after a new health care reform bill gained momentum Wednesday when two ...

British voters in England, Scotland and Wales will head to the polls on Thursday to take part in this year’s local elections, a strong indicator of possible winners in next month’s general elections. A total of 4,851 council seats are available in 88 councils across Wales and Scotland as well ...

Iraqi armed forces have opened a new front in northwestern Mosul in the latest phase of their campaign to liberate the city from Daesh Takfiri terrorists. On Thursday, the army’s 9th Armored Division and the Rapid Response units of the Interior Ministry advanced on the Daesh enclave from the northwest, ...

LONDON – Wimbledon chiefs will wait until June 20, just days ahead of the qualifying event, before deciding whether to give a wildcard to former champion Maria Sharapova as she steps up her return from a doping ban. The Russian, who won Wimbledon in 2004, made her return to competitive ...

Jason Unruhe, a political analyst, believes there is no prosecution for police officers in the United States involved in the fatal shooting of black people because one of their functions is to repress minority groups, which have a “disenfranchised position” within the American society. “They [police] are supposed to suppress ...